Georgian

Introduction

Modern Georgian is written with the Mkhedruli alphabet. There is no uppercase/lowercase distinction. In titles and headlines the characters are usually shown thicker and stretched so that they are uniform in height. Emphasis is shown by increasing the spacing between characters in a word. Mkhedruli occupies U+10D0 - U+10FF of the Georgian range.

Mkhedruli developed in the tenth century from an earlier manuscript alphabet called Nuskhuri.
Today Nuskhuri is used only for liturgical purposes.
Prior to Unicode version 4.1, Nuskhuri occupied the same codepoints as Mkhedruli (U+10D0 - U+10FF).
With version 4.1, Nuskhuri has its own range (Georgian Supplement: U+2D00 - U+2D2F).

Nuskhuri developed from yet an older, inscriptional alphabet called Asomtavruli that was in use from the 5th to the 9th century.
Religious texts used Asomtavruli characters for titles and the first letter of sentences.
(Nuskhuri and Asomtavruli together are sometimes categorized as Khutsuri / ecclesiastical.)
Asomtavruli occupies U+10A0 - U+10CF of the Georgian range.

BPG Academiuri UAm[ show all samples ]
(BPG-Academiuri-UAm.TTF in BPG-Academiuri-UA.zip) A detailed description of this font is also available. Style: U+10A0... characters are Mkhedruli Titles instead of Asomtavruli.Source: Free download from the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 01.07.99 has 257 glyphs and 45 kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Mkhedruli), Latin; Georgian characters also mapped to Latin Supplement codepoints

BPG Chveulebrivi 2002[ show all samples ]
(BPG_Chveulebrivi.ttf) Style: U+10A0... characters are Mkhedruli Titles instead of Asomtavruli.Source: Free download from either the shavlego file area or the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 2.5 2002 has 206 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Mkhedruli), Latin

BPG Chveulebrivi U[ show all samples ]
(BPG-Chveulebrivi-Um.ttf in BPG-Chveulebrivi-Um.zip) A detailed description of this font is also available. Style: U+10A0... characters are Mkhedruli Titles instead of Asomtavruli.Source: Free download from the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 02/05/99 has 313 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Mkhedruli), Latin; Georgian characters also mapped to Latin Supplement codepoints

BPG Classic 99U[ show all samples ]
(BPG-Classic-99Um from BPG-Classic-U.zip) A detailed description of this font is also available. Style: U+10A0... characters are Mkhedruli Titles instead of Asomtavruli.Source: Free download from the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 12.07.99 has 276 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Mkhedruli), Latin; Georgian characters also mapped to Latin Supplement codepoints

BPG Lortkipanidze U[ show all samples ]
(BPG-Lortkipanidze-Um.ttf in BPG-Lor-Par.zip) A detailed description is also available for this font. Style: 19th century typeface Source: Free download from the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 01.07.99 has 211 glyphs and 45 kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Mkhedruli), Latin; Georgian characters also mapped to Latin Supplement codepoints

BPG Nino Khutsuri U[ show all samples ]
(BPG-Nino-U.TTF in BPG-Nino-U.zip) A detailed description of this font is also available. Style: Nuskhuri instead of Mkhedruli.Source: Free download from either the shavlego file area or the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 2.35 has 375 glyphs and 452 kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri instead of Mkhedruli), Greek, Latin

BPG Paata Khutsuri U[ show all samples ]
(BPG-Paata-Khutsuri-U.ttf in BPG-Paata-Khutsuri.zip) A detailed description is also available for this font. Style: Nuskhuri instead of Mkhedruli.Source: Free download from the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 2.4 has 378 glyphs and 287 kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri instead of Mkhedruli), Greek, Latin

BPG Parisian U[ show all samples ]
(BPG-Parisian-Um.ttf in BPG-Lor-Par.zip) A detailed description is also available for this font. Style: 19th century typeface Source: Free download from the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 29.07.99 has 275 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Mkhedruli), Latin; Georgian characters also mapped to Latin Supplement codepoints

BPG SanSer UE2, BPG SansSerif UE, and BPG SanSer UEm[ show all samples ]
(BPG-SanSer-UE2.ttf, BPG-SanSer-UE.TTF, and BPG-SansSerif-UEm.TTF in BPG-SansSerif.zip) A detailed description is also available for these fonts. Style: U+10A0... characters are Mkhedruli Titles instead of Asomtavruli.Source: Free download from the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 28.4.2001 has 286 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Mkhedruli), Latin; Georgian characters also mapped to Latin Supplement codepoints

BPG Ucnobi U[ show all samples ]
(BPG-Ucnobi-U.ttf in BPG-Ucnobi-U.zip) A detailed description of this font is also available. Style: 19th century typeface Source: Free download from the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 1.6 has 213 glyphs and 675 kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Mkhedruli), Latin; Georgian characters also mapped to Latin Supplement codepoints

Free Monospaced (Georgian specific version)[ show all samples ]
(FreeMonoGeorgian.ttf) Note: Don't confuse this font with the "FreeMono.ttf" font of the same name. Source: Free downloadr from the www.crosswire.org mirror. Stats: Version 0.39 has 138 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Mkhedruli), Latin

Titus Asomtavruli Nuskhuri[ show all samples ]
(tituann.ttf from the wc97401.exe archive) Note: Georgian characters also mapped to Latin and other codepoints. Source: Part of the free TITUS WordCruncher font package download available from TITUS (after submitting a form). Stats: Version 2000 1.0 has 248 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Georgian (Asomtavruli only)

TITUS Cyberbit Basic[ show all samples ]
(tituscbz.ttf) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download (after submitting a form) from TITUS. Stats: Version 3.0 (2000) has 9,779 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Thaana, Vietnamese

Additional Information About These Font Samples

Font sizes for the various fonts above were adjusted to make them roughly the same size for the sake of comparison.

The characters used for the font samples do not necessarily form words but were chosen for visual variety:
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Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Georgian Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Georgian block page (in English and German/Deutsch).